Never did I think...

It is 1:18 am Chicago time, which is 8:18 am here in Stockholm, Sweden. I have just landed and am sitting in an empty airport waiting for my next flight. It is at 10:25 am swedish time to Edinburgh. Then I have a 45 min. shuttle ride to St. Andrews. This will make a total of 13 hours traveling, since my flight left Chicago at 4:25 pm chicago time.
So, to the title of my blog...
never did I think....
I would almost miss my flight (I took an hour to go through security and when I checked to make sure it said "on time," it said "GO TO GATE."
I would use and love a neck/head support blow-up pillow on the plane (I used to make fun of all those people)
I would have a hard time sleeping on a plane (it was loud and I have restless leg syndrome in my right leg and right arm for 1 of the 3 hours they turned the lights off the plane).
I would leave to go overseas for 3 months and not totally cry leaving my mom at the airport. (she dropped me off, and after a few short sniffles, I got down to business and checked my bags, all 2 of them)
I would fit everything I wanted to take into 3 suitcases (this includes, 16 t-shirts, 6 pants, 2 shorts, 10 socks, 10 bras, 14 underwear, 2 winter hats, 4 baseball hats, 3 sweaters, 1 sweatshirt, 3 coats, 2 bags, 5 pillow cases, 2 towels, 1 swimsuit, 1 sweatpants, 2 basketball shorts, 2 flannel pants to sleep in, a dress, 1 scarf, 3 pairs of gloves, 5 nice dress shirts... and 10 pairs of shoes, not to mention all the other little things to put in my dorm room). And, as Kathleen, my friend and roommate last year, knows, 10 pairs of shoes and 16 shirts is a huge decrease from last year. I love shoes... and, bedding!
I would see a nice airport. The airport I am in right now is amazing! They have nice dark hardwood floors and everything is glass- very chic.
I would have an actual conversation with a 3 year-old. (I had to wait to use the bathroom, which I had airplane bathrooms!, for like 30 mins and her and her mom where ahead of me. She was very excited to be moving back home to the Czech Rep.)
It is so easy to tell that I am American (everything here, and on the plane, was said first in Swedish and then English. The Stewardesses would talk to everyone in Swedish, expect the people that spoke only English, it is like by looking at us they could tell.
I would want to learn Swedish. ( I felt so felt out on the plane, everyone was speaking a language that I do not know one word off.)
That Swedish is still the predominant language here... maybe it was stupidity or arrogance, but I thought that all of Europe knew and spoke English- at least to some extent. This is not the case. Even this blog's instructions and buttons are all in Swedish, since I am on the airports network, and the man I bought the water from here only had Swedish money- not US, not even the Euro. 


I had to pay for the internet so I better sign off for now.